A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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cut

Craft Terms
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Cut means to divide or shape by slicing or removing material; in poetry, it can suggest sharpness, brevity, separation, or the sculpting of language.

Detailed Definition
In literal craft, cut is one of the basic acts of shaping material. In poetry, it may describe the pruning of words, the sudden break of a line, or the emotional sting of separation. It is a craft term because poetic writing often depends on cutting away excess to reveal form.
Example
Example in poetry:
Enjambment cuts a sentence across line breaks, creating tension and forward momentum; A poet may cut a poem down through revision, removing excess words to sharpen its impact; Caesura cuts a line internally, creating a pause that shapes rhythm and emphasis; A poet describing loss might use the image of a rope being cut to symbolize sudden separation; Editors and poets alike cut weaker stanzas from a draft to strengthen the whole; A poem about surgery or violence might use cutting imagery literally to explore vulnerability of the body.
Additional Notes
Cut is among the most fundamental craft terms in poetry, referring both to the literal cutting of excess material during revision and to more figurative uses describing sharpness, brevity, or emotional pain; the term is closely tied to discussions of enjambment and line breaks, since a line can be said to be "cut" at a particular point to create rhythmic or semantic effect; instructors often emphasize that cutting is not merely subtractive but constitutive, since what a poet chooses to cut shapes the poem as significantly as what remains, echoing sculptural metaphors of revealing form through removal.
Also Known As
slice carve trim sever incise reap shear
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